"We handled it like they did in the Olympics with pairs figure skating," said Phil Olsen, a bearded, 54-year-old lawyer who organized the event.

Doctors have discovered a benign brain tumor in Kim Seybold, who competed in pairs figure skating with her brother in the 1988 Olympics.

She thought the pair of workers figured they'd landed a real nut case.

They were preceded by a figure skating exhibition performed by the men's, women's, and pairs figure skating champions.

The first incident came in the pairs figure skating, won last week by Yelena Berezhnaya and Anton Sikharulidze of Russia.

When pairs figure skating begins on Sunday, and Russian gold medalists from the previous two Olympics take the ice, nine judges will have a decision to make.

In our innocence, Tara and I had planned our routine almost like pairs figure skating, so we were touching (or very near) during the whole thing.

As complicated as it all seemed, the pair might figure it all out and ruin everything.

Perhaps a coed arrangement would make the sport as appealing as pairs figure skating.

The pairs figure skating event was held as part of the figure skating programme at the 1932 Winter Olympics.